Publications by Thomas La Grange

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Wafer-scale MOCVD growth of monolayer MoS2 on sapphire and SiO2

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Thomas La Grange, Michal Daniel Macha, Ke Liu, Yanfei Zhao, Hokwon Kim, Huanyao Cun

High-quality and large-scale growth of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has caught intensive attention because of its potential in many applications due to unique electronic properties. Here, we report the wafer-scale growth of high-quality monolayer ...

2019

Multi-Length Scale Structure of 2D/3D Dion-Jacobson Hybrid Perovskites Based on an Aromatic Diammonium Spacer

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Thomas La Grange, Jovana Milic, Aditya Mishra, Amita Ummadisingu, Algirdas Ducinskas

Dion-Jacobson (DJ) iodoplumbates based on 1,4-phenylenedimethanammonium (PDMA) have recently emerged as promising light absorbers for perovskite solar cells. While PDMA is one of the simplest aromatic spacers potentially capable of forming a DJ structure b ...

2021

Au Core-Pd Shell Bimetallic Nanoparticles Immobilized within Hyper-Cross-Linked Polystyrene for Mechanistic Study of Suzuki Cross-Coupling: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Catalysis?

Lioubov Kiwi, Thomas La Grange

The synthesis of catalytically active bimetallic Au-Pd nanoparticles stabilized in hyper-cross-linked polystyrene (HPS) for Suzuki cross-coupling of 4-bromoanisole (4-BrAn) and phenylboronic acid is presented. The core-shell structure with a thin (less tha ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Electron beam dynamics in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope with Wehnelt electrode

Thomas La Grange

High temporal resolution transmission electron microscopy techniques have shown significant progress in recent years. Using photoelectron pulses induced by ultrashort laser pulses on the cathode, these methods can probe ultrafast materials processes and ha ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Pronounced grain boundary network evolution in nanocrystalline Cu subjected to large cyclic strains

Thomas La Grange

The grain boundary network of nanocrystalline Cu foils was modified by the application of cyclic loadings and elevated temperatures. Broadly, the changes to the boundary network were directly correlated with the applied temperature and accumulated strain, ...

2019

High‐Entropy Magnetism of Murunskite

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Thomas La Grange, Davor Tolj, Rongrong Cai

Murunskite (K 2 FeCu 3 S 4 ) bridges the two known families of high‐temperature superconductors, cuprates and iron‐pnictides, structurally and electronically. Like these families, murunskite exhibits an antiferromagnetic (AF)‐like response with an ordered ...

Wiley2025

Switching Kinetics Control of W-Based ReRAM Cells in Transient Operation by Interface Engineering

Yusuf Leblebici, Thomas La Grange, Mahmoud Hadad, Cecilia Giovinazzo

Tungsten (W) is one of the most promising materials to be used in resistive random-access memory electrodes due to its low work function and compatibility with semiconductors, which raises the possibility of device integration, scalability, and low power c ...

WILEY2019

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy Nanoscale Imaging of Femtosecond Plasma Dynamics

Fabrizio Carbone, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Gabriele Berruto, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani, Luca Piazza

Understanding and actively controlling the spatiotemporal dynamics of nonequilibrium electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, high power electronic devices, and plasma-based applications. However, electron clouds evolve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Ultrafast momentum-resolved visualization of the interplay between phonon-mediated scattering and plasmons in graphite

Rémi Marcel Léon Claude, Fabrizio Carbone, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Michele Puppin, Francesco Barantani, Alexey Sapozhnik, Bruce Michael Raleigh Weaver

Scattering between charges and collective modes in materials governs phenomena such as electrical resistance, energy dissipation, and phase switching. Studying such scattering requires simultaneous access to ultrafast and momentum-resolved dynamics of sing ...

2025

Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani

Characterizing and controlling the out-of-equilibrium state of nanostructured Mott insulators hold great promises for emerging quantum technologies while providing an exciting playground for investigating fundamental physics of strongly-correlated systems. ...

Nature Research2020

Efficient Solar-vapor Generation in Hollow-mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells

Demetri Psaltis, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Ye Pu, Thomas La Grange, Jae-Woo Choi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Marcin Stefan Zielinski

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown great promise in solar thermal applications. Here we report highly efficient solar vapor generation using hollow-mesoporous plasmonic nanoshells, where the steam production is significantly enhanced by the extended activ ...

IEEE2018

Material Parameter Extraction for Complex AlScN Thin Film Using Dual Mode Resonators in Combination with Advanced Microstructural Analysis and Finite Element Modeling

Paul Muralt, Thomas La Grange, Vladimir Pashchenko, Fazel Parsapour, Silviu Cosmin Sandu

Accurate property determination of the piezoelectric thin film material Al(1-x)Sc(x)N is necessary for designing the next generation of radio frequency resonators in mobile communication, and for testing results of ab initio calculations. Sound velocity an ...

WILEY2019

Ion implantation in Ni-Ti shape memory alloy thin films

Thomas La Grange

The present thesis focuses on the effect of 5 MeV Ni ion irradiation on the microstructure and the thermomechanical behavior in prestrained (ε∼4%) martensitic Ti-rich NiTi thin films. At this ion energy, damage is limited to a depth of approximately 2 µm ( ...

EPFL2005

Ni-based structured catalyst for selective 3-phase hydrogenation of nitroaromatics

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lioubov Kiwi, Thomas La Grange, Daniel André Samuel Lamey, Oliver Anthony Beswick

We report herein on the development of Ni-based catalyst using activated carbon fibres (ACFs) as a structured support and its application for the three‐phase hydrogenation of nitroarenes (T = 353 K; P = 10 bar). It was shown that metallic Ni0 nanoparticles ...

Elsevier2016

Impact of negative bias on the piezoelectric properties through the incidence of abnormal oriented grains in Al0.62Sc0.38N thin films

Paul Muralt, Thomas La Grange, Fazel Parsapour, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Lukas Riemer, Robin Nigon, Xiao Di

Sputter deposited A1ScN films with an Sc content of 38 at % were investigated by X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the influence of the radio frequency (RF) bias on the growth of abnormally oriented grains (AOG). Scanning electron microsco ...

2020

Low-Dose Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy with Radioactive Palladium-Gold Nanoparticles

Thomas La Grange

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the leading causes of death among men. Low-dose brachytherapy is an increasingly used treatment for PCa, which requires the implantation of tens of radioactive seeds. This treatment causes discomfort; these implants cannot b ...

Wiley2017

Ultrafast Transverse Modulation of Free Electrons by Interaction with Shaped Optical Fields

Phoebe Marie Tengdin, Fabrizio Carbone, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani, Alexey Sapozhnik, Veronica Leccese

Spatiotemporal electron-beam shaping is a bold frontier of electron microscopy. Over the past decade, shaping methods evolved from static phase plates to low-speed electrostatic and magnetostatic displays. Recently, a swift change of paradigm utilizing lig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Thomas La Grange, Barbora Bártová, Zezhen Pan

Uranium (U) is a ubiquitous element in the Earth's crust at similar to 2 ppm. In anoxic environments, soluble hexavalent uranium (U(VI)) is reduced and immobilized. The underlying reduction mechanism is unknown but likely of critical importance to explain ...

Nature Research2020

Performance improvement of chip-level CMOS-integrated ReRAM cells through material optimization

Yusuf Leblebici, Thomas La Grange, Tugba Demirci, Elmira Shahrabi

The integration of the resistive random access memory (ReRAM) with CMOS logic circuitry provides a solution to scaling limitations, and offers promising candidates for use in next generation computing applications. It is challenging to realize a reliable, ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

The quantum future of microscopy: Wave function engineering of electrons, ions, and nuclei

Fabrizio Carbone, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Simone Gargiulo

The ability to manipulate particles has always been a fundamental aspect for developing and improving scattering and microscopytechniques used for material investigations. So far, microscopy applications have mostly relied on a classical treatment of the e ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020